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Re: FW: Another interesting music player

 

I'd still shoot for deadbeef. It does seem to do the job better imho even
for a defecit of 3Mb.


On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Glenn de Groot
<glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  From: glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Lubuntu-desktop] Another interesting music player
> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:56:46 +0000
>
> Sorry, it doesn´t use python.
> I got confused by misreading this part of an article:
>
> xnoise is written in vala. This means it is compiled to pure Gobject/C and
> therfore very fast and lightweight *compared with other music players
> written in mono or python.*
>
> I already thought it was kinda strange since it did not come with python
> dependencies. :P
> So it does use about 4 or 5 mb of ram.
>
> -Glenn
>
> > Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:37:38 +0800
> > Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Another interesting music player
> > From: pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx
> > To: glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > CC: lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Something using python never uses less memory than a C program.
> > You forgot to count the python runtime in.
> > The whole python runtime sometimes consumes more than 20 mb.
> > Of course, if you only count the little script in, it uses less than 5
> > mb, but that's not true.
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Glenn de Groot
> > <glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > found another interesting music player called Xnoise.
> > > It uses 4.5 mb of ram on start up while deadbeef uses 11 mb.
> > > Deadbeef also uses 10.8 mb while playing an mp3 (interesting decrease)
> and
> > > xnoise uses 5.7.
> > > It´s a gtk app coded in Python and uses gstreamer so it also plays
> video´s
> > > but it is aimed as a music player.
> > > website:
> > > http://code.google.com/p/xnoise/
> > >
> > > Just thought it´s an interesting little app. ;)
> > > -Glenn
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